Research Manager
Harvard Law School is Harvard University’s law school, providing legal education, clinical learning, legal scholarship, and research programs.
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About Harvard Law School
Founded in 1817, Harvard Law School is an active academic unit of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It offers more than 500 courses and seminars, clinical education, faculty research, and legal scholarship.
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About the Role
You will manage technical and policy-focused AI research projects, coordinate collaborators and deliverables, and conduct research on AI systems and their legal and policy impacts. You will maintain reproducible technical workflows, produce written and multimedia publications, supervise junior researchers, support grants, and organize stakeholder events.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree.
- 5 or more years of experience in research, analysis, or a related field.
- Proficiency with Python, R, or SQL.
- Experience researching law and policy as applied to technology or AI.
- Published research experience.
- Experience drafting and editing policy-relevant materials.
- Project management and organizational skills.
- Experience running compute-intensive machine learning experiments on high-performance or GPU computing clusters.
- Familiarity with large language models and AI-assisted coding tools such as Claude Code.
- Experience in trust and safety, prompt engineering, and AI red teaming.
- Supervisory experience.
- Willingness to travel as needed.
Responsibilities
- Manage the quality and development of technical and policy-oriented AI research.
- Track project timelines and deliverables and coordinate collaborators and stakeholders.
- Conduct academic research on AI systems and policy issues including liability, copyright, and accountability.
- Implement and maintain reproducible technical research workflows across models and compute environments.
- Produce policy briefs, research papers, essays, op-eds, and other public-facing outputs.
- Recruit, mentor, and manage junior researchers, research assistants, and interns.
- Develop grant proposals and manage post-award deliverables and reporting.
- Design and manage workshops, roundtables, seminars, and other stakeholder events.
Benefits
- Generous paid time off including parental leave.
- Medical, dental, and vision health insurance coverage starting on day one.
- Retirement plans with university contributions.
- Wellbeing and mental health resources.
- Support for families and caregivers.
- Tuition assistance and reimbursement.
- Commuter benefits, discounts, and campus perks.